Improvement in bale-band benders



L. MILLER. Bale-Band Bender.

No. 220,636. Patented Oct. 14, I879.

ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIS MILLER, .01? READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALE-BAND BE'NQUERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 220,636, dated October14, 1879; application filed Augustl l, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS MILLER, of Reading, in the county of Berks,and in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Bale-Band Bend; ers; and do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, making a part of this specification.

My present invention is intended as an improvement upon the bale-bandbender for which Letters Patent N 0. 217,135 were granted to me July1,1879; and it consists in providing such bale-band bender withautomatically-acting jaws or clamps for holding the band while thecutter and bender perform .their respective functions, and also inproviding the frame or body of the'bender with a slot in one side toinsert the band laterally, all as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describeitsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, in which-Figure l is a side view of my improved baleband bender. Fig. 2 is acentral section of the same. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are detailed views ofparts thereof.

The body A of my machine is of substantially the same form as shown inmy former patent, having side slots or openings, to, for the insertionof the buckle. B is the bendinghook,'provided with handleG, andhavingjournals b b, which pivot the same in the sides of the body orframe A. D is the knife or cutter, attached to a slide, E, having oneach side a projecting pin, 0?, which passes through a slot in the sideof the frame and also through a slot in the side arm of the doublehandle F, which is pivoted to the frame. All these parts in theirconstruction and operation are substan tially the same as described inmy former patent above referred to.

In my former patent the end of the baleband had to be passed fromunderneath upward through the top opening, 0, so as to be acted upon bythe cutter and the bender.

In my present case I make a slot or opening, f, in one side of the bodyor frame A, so that the band can be inserted from the side, which savestime and labor, and also enables me to use band-iron put up incontinuous rolls, and out 01f the same without waste.

Upon each journal 12 of the hook B is pivoted a jaw, G, which isconstructed as shown in Fig. 5, and extends over the portion h of thehook B, the two jaws meeting in the center thereof, and connected by adowel-pin, k. The surfaces ofthe jaws are toothed longitudinally, asshown, and a spring, a, is arranged in connection with each jaw, tothrow the same in position for holding the band.

On the part 'h of the hook B is formed a shoulder, m, to release thejaws.

In tving the bands the buckle is passed through the side openings, at,and the band passed around the bale, the other end being insertedlaterally through the opening f. By working the two handles-that is,bringing them toward each other-the cutter will be brought forward andcut off the end of the band, and the thus cut-off end is bent andcrimped into the buckle; but during the operation the jaws Gr hold theband so that it cannot slip.

In fact, the more strain there is on the band the tighter the jaws willhold it.

After the band has been cut and tied and the bending-hook B turned back,the shoulder m strikes the inner projecting ends of the jaws G G andturns the same out of the way, so that the machine can be slipped offfrom the band.

This machine can be used to tie any packages, boXes, barrels, &c.,equally as well as cotton-bales.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a bale-band bender, the frame or body A, formed with the sideslot, f, for the insertion of the band laterally into the bender, forthe purposes herein set forth.

2. In a bale-band bender, the toothed jaws G G, operated by springs, incombination with the bending-hook B, as and for the purposes herein setforth.

3. In abale-band bender, the bending-hook B, provided or formed with theshoulder m, in combination with the spring-jaws G G, for the purposesherein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this14th day of August, 1879.

LEWIS MILLER.

Witnesses H. AUBREY ToULMrN, FRANK GALT.

